Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

Understanding AI: No, AI learning from training data is not "just like humans reading books". If you must force the metaphor, it's closer to humans with a photographic memory. Who will rewrite others' content and pass it off as their own.

"...when you can convince everyone that AI might turn everyone into paperclips tomorrow, or on the flip side might cure every disease on earth, it’s easy to distract people from today’s issues of ghost labor, algorithmic bias, and erosion of the rights of artists and others."

this is the most 2020s paragraph i have ever read

Reflecting on Claudine Gay, I'm reminded that a fundamental of racism--that we should all be aware of--is the disparate application of rules: People from one race* are disproportionately punished for "breaking a rule" that ppl from another are virtually never punished for.🧵

This tweet & follow-up ("need more gpus") is unfortunately another good example of how AI culture can be alienating to people outside the tech bubble. Even though I'm inside, chatbots creating more text than people isn't something that I can discern as good in-and-of-itself. 1/

The conclusion that Sayash Kapoor and I have reached over and over: direct harms from gen AI (that you can regulate) pale in comparison to the cost of societal adaptation and of the extractive business model. Without structural reform, those will continue. aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-safety-is…

CivicSearch is a searchable archive of public meetings from 500+ US & Canadian municipalities. "The data is organized into 75 frequently-discussed local policy topics" civicsearch.org

"Contrary to futurist discourse...Silicon Valley has instead delivered infinite arrays of two-dimensional spectacle combined with total civilisational stagnation in the crumbling three-dimensional world." unherd.com/2024/03/the-bu…

I can’t believe it took me so long to discover this thesaurus!!!! sharing it so more writers and ppl who need it can use it onelook.com/reverse-dictio…

every website now is like “oh were you looking for Answers? well here are Sentences”

This sound made up, but it really happened. I was at this clam shack in Falmouth today. Older man in front of me steps up to order. Guy: "I'll have the whole-belly clam roll" Cashier: "Can I get a name for that order?" Guy *looking perplexed*: "Uh, hmm - maybe 'clam roll' "

Writers out there: If you aren't using onelook.com/thesaurus/ , you are missing out. Not only is it an excellent thesaurus/dictionary, it will also help you find a word you can't remember. Looking for a word that means 'unable to articulate', it has you covered. 1/2

Through redrawing attendance boundaries to "promote racial and ethnic diversity in elementary schools," authors hope this study is a useful building block to help inform school desegregation policies. #Diversity ➡️ bit.ly/3XXaRQ3 AERA Sage Education

SONGWRITERS!! Rhymezone's had a makeover! I can't get used to it, it's like when your Dad shaves his beard off

The 1970s. What if smartphones had existed back then? The old VHS recordings of memories—your parents' lifeless, soulless archive of absence. Inspired by The Anxious Generation Jonathan Haidt Karen Vaites Jeffrey Flier Matt Wallace Sandy Chappell Mario Nawfal Phenomenology Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.

Random game of the day: Cyberbox (Puzzle: Doug Beeferman, 1991) Download/play: dosgames.com/game/cyberbox/ #dosgaming #retrogaming #puzzle #sokoban #blockpushing #ega